President Trump threatened Monday to permanently halt U.S. funding to the World Health Organization and “reconsider” the country’s membership in the U.N. body if it does not “commit to major substantive improvements” within the next 30 days.In a letter to the WHO posted in a late-night tweet, Trump said the global health agency floundered in…
Taiwan on Tuesday said it was "disappointed and angry" with the World Health Organization (WHO) for not inviting Taipei to join this year's World Health Assembly (WHA) which kicked off Monday.Taiwan has been lobbying hard to join this year's meeting as an observer after its success with containing the coronavirus outbreak. But it faced strong opposition from…
(CNN)An attorney for the family of Ahmaud Arbery, who was shot and killed in Brunswick, Georgia, in February, says they want the man who recorded the incident arrested despite his attorney's claim that he was not involved in the death. "We are going to conti…
Biotech company Moderna, which is testing one of the leading coronavirus vaccine candidates, priced an offering of 17.6 million new shares at $76 each, the company said late Monday.The company said it expects the offering to close around Thursday, with gross proceeds totaling around $1.34 billion. Moderna is also giving the underwriters a 30-day option to buy…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…